Electric-light hanger.



PATENT'BD DEC. 5, 1905.

H. R. BERRY.

ELECTRIC LIGHT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20. 1905.

l/VVENTOH fieriy ATTORNEYS understood. In the upper end of the tubularUNITED TATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH R. BERRY, 0E GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

ELECTRIC-LIGHT HANGER.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUGH R. BERRY, a citizen of theUnited States, and aresident of Greenville, in the county of Washington and State ofMississippi, have invented a new and Improved Electric-Light Hanger, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means intended for hanging incandescent lights.R

The object had in view is to construct'a hanger of that generalcharacter whichin ad: dition to being adjustable, extensible, and madeto effectively support the light as adjusted by improved means isinexpensive to manufacture and as an article heat in appearance.

The invention consists, of the special con struction, arrangement, andcombination of parts shown by the accompanying drawings and hereinafterfully described, the novel features being pointedout in the claims.

" In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal ed to receive any commonform of incandescent light, and the upper end of the tube B is fashionedinto spherical form,-as at C, with the latter having anopening D on itsupper side. I!

The spherical end 0 of the tube'B isarranged in a suitable seat E of ashort tubular section F and with both ends thereof forming a commonball-and-socket joint, as well section F, I securely'arrange oneend of atube G, whose other or upper end is-provided with a'hollow'cap I-I,made. adapted to be secured to any base or support and to inclose any ofthe usual electric-wire rosesor ceiling-blocks, as will be understood.In the tubular section F, I arrange a coil or other spring I, with thesame exerting pressure againstthe spherical head or ball 0. A tubularweight J is arranged inthe tube G, and I' rotatably sup:

port therein near its upper end asuita blygrooved pulley K. It will beunderstood that the weight J is intended to have free movement in thetube G. 1

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 20, 1905. Serial No. 270,575.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

In further carrying out my invention I employ a grooved pulley L in thecap H androtatably support the same by any approved means.

With the parts constructed and arranged as shown and described in theuse ofmy hanger the light or electric Wires are extended down under thepulley K, upwardly over the pulley be noticed upon reference to Fig. 1of my drawings that when the tube A is shoved to telescoping positioninto'the tube B the weight J will be lowered down the tube G and thatfurther, that it is designed to have the tubular weight counterweightthe light globe and the .movable tubes, and thereby hold them to anextended'adjustment of the hanger.

It is apparent when the telescoping tubes A B areswung out of alinementwith the longitudinal-plane of the tube G that by force of the spring Iagainst the spherical end or ball 0 on the tube G the ball is pressedinto its socket and through resulting frictional contact the telescopingtubes. may not only be freely adjusted laterally, butheld as adjusted.It will be noticed that insulation is not used .in the make-up of myhanger-and that by reason of its special or peculiar construction thelight may beefieo'tively supported in a raised or lowered position andat any angle within the scope of the movement permitted by theball-and-socket joint, connecting the upper and the lower or telescopingtubes.

Having thusdescribed my invention, What is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Pa'tent,'is I 1. An electric-lighthanger'consisting of, an upper tube, having a securing-cap at one endand a tubular section arranged on its other. e'nd,a socket in thetubular section, a tube having one end made spherical adapted to seat insaidsocket, a tube telescoping in the latter tube, a spring holding saidspherical tube so i end yieldingly seated in its socket, an elec--tric-light-globe socket at the outer end of the telescoping tube, atubular weight in the upper tube, a' pulley on the weight, a similar-IIO pulley at the securing end of the upper tube, circuit-wires.extending from a fixed connection down through the tubular weight andall the latter tube, a Weight arranged in the upsald tubes, to theglobe-socket, the circuitper tube, having free movement therein, and I0Wires being arranged around the pulleys, submeans connecting the Weightand lowermost stantially as described. tube, substantially as described.5 2. The combination in a light-hanger, of an HUGH R. BERRY. upper tubehaving" a spherical socket at its Witnesses:

lower end, a tubehaving a spherical end adapt- CHARLES M. TALLEY,

ed to seat in the socket, a tube telescoping into J AMES ROACH BROWNE.

